Chasing the Chupacabra 10K Post race

Well, this event was pretty cool.  It was well organized and lots of fun.  The night time trail running was a little scary at first and I did eat it at one point.  I was paying attention to the guy in front of me who ate it and didn't see the stump past him that I tripped on.  Didn't get hurt, just some scrapes and dirt.  But after that it was relatively smooth sailing.  Lots of tripping and lost balance but I never hit the deck again.  At points the trail would get very narrow and if you were behind a slower runner it would get bogged down. I didn't have too many issues with this and looked at the slower pace as a nice rest.  At one point the trail came out into a clearing and there was an amazing view of downtown San Antonio and a thunderstorm south of SA.  It was really beautiful.  There was a woman that I got behind for a pretty good period of time.  She was running a pretty good pace and was great at pointing out stumps and roots and rocks.  I ended up passing her about a mile and half from the finish and wanted to find her and thank her afterwards, but amazingly, there were tons of people in neon green shirts and black shorts.  My end time was 1:03:11.  Pretty good for my first competitive 10K, in the dark, on a trail.  It was definitely a blast and I will do it again next year.  Lots of fun.